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From: bobk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Bob Kinne)
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Subject: DECStation 3100
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Date: 12 Apr 89 20:50:30 GMT
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Bob Kinne	 	Optoelectronics Computing Center    
UCB, Campus Box 525	VOICE		(303) 492-3330
Boulder, CO 80309	INTERNET	bobk@boulder.Colorado.EDU
We will be installing a DECstation 3100 in about 2 weeks.  We
would like to install ULTRIX 3.0 over the network, in the same
way we support VAXStations.  Our server is a 3500 with TK tape.
Since the byte ordering is different between the VAX and the
MIPS machine, are there any problems or tricks involved in setting
up the DECstation as a Remote Installation client of the VAXserver?
We will have the DECstation ULTRIX on a tape, we only need to 
download it from tape to server, then from server to workstation.
Our DEC rep has no answers, and recommends buying a TK drive with
the DECstation (cost about $6500) to do downloads.  This doesn't
seem necessary to me, but I'd like some information from someone
with experience.